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Republicans. you're going to need a fair number of republicans along with democrats. then you start getting into, okay, one of the philosophical differences between the parties when you start looking at this is a lot of -- there are republicans who have an issue with daca in general, but a lot of republicans say, look, at the end of the day we should do daca. but they view it as a concession. they view it as a significant concession, and they want something for it. i think the default democratic position is just do it. no strings attached. so i think the more republican votes you need for this...

When you'll actually have a chance to get the dreamer act passed isn't the senate. without the president's help, it's agreed there will be no action in the house, which still operates under the hastert rule. you don't get anything to the floor unless a majority of the republican members in the house support it, which to me has nothing to do with the constitution, but it is how part of the republican leadership in the congress has behaved for years. so you really have a question here, is the senate content to get a daca bill, a dreamer bill passed through the senate sometime in early february, ...

The budget. and health care and disaster aid and things like opioids and veterans and pensions and on immigration. my recent offer to the president was a generous one. i put his signature campaign issue on the table in exchange for daca, and still he turned away. president trump's unwillingness to compromise caused the trump shutdown and brought us to this moment. the facts are well known. now i wish to update the senate on where things stand after this weekend. since our meeting in the oval office on friday, the president and i have not spoken. and the white house refused to engage in negotia...

Sides. the democrats are going to stick to this fight. they're going to try to get a commitment from mcconnell, the republican leader. they give them a vote in the next couple weeks on daca. they want to get a commitment from him. can they trust him? can chuck schumer trust him? can enough democrats trust him that there will be a vote that they can move on with the government. i think that's the key question tonight. steve, will they get a commitment from mcconnell that's enough for them to stop the fight. >> yeah, and chris, obviously please stay with us throughout the vote, throughout the ho...

Some recognition among the democrats that they cannot afford to keep the government shut down. i'm glad they're going that. i hope they'll do it in the vote in the next few minutes and get it done. then the channllenge will be to work on daca legislation. there is no bill. they've got to work on a bill. that is something that has to be done. it should take time. it's an important issue that i think leader mcconnell is appropriate in saying we're going to give you time to get a bill. we'll give you a commitment that there will be a vote and a bill. of course, there was always going to be a bill...